Button.



N0. 685,307. Patented Oct. 29, |90I.

, H. F. STWELL. A

BUTTON.

(Application led Dec. 17 1900.

(No Model.)

I- W/ ff-wflmw UNITED STATES NPATENT OEEICE.

HENRY F. STOWELL, OF ROCHESTER, NE'W YORK.

BUTTON.

SPEGXFICATJLON forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,307, dated October29, 1901.

Application filed December 17, 1900. Serial No. 40,204. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. STOWELL, a resident ot' Rochester, in thecounty of Monroe and State of New York, haveinvented certain new anduseful Improvements in Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and usethe same.

The invention relates to buttons, and has for its object to providebuttons with an etlicient and economical attachment for the support ofdrawers and for like purposes.

The invention consists in the construction herein described and pointedout.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures l and 2 are respectively front andside elevations of a button with the improved attachment. Figs. 3 and Ilare respectively similar views of a modied form of the same. Fig. 5'is apartial central longitudinal section of the form shown in Figs. l and 2.Fig. 6 is a blank suitable for forming either form of the device. Fig. 7is an elevation of a third form made from the same blank and combinedwith a hook. Fig. 8 is a plan of a blank for forming a button with twohooks, and Fig. 9 is a plan of a button with hooks formed from saidblank.

Numeral l denotes a blank having a circular part 2, adapted to be formedinto a button of usualV form, except as modified by an extension 3,having an approximately oval end 4, cut away at 5 to lighten the weightand also for a further purpose to be described.

The button primarily intended for trousers has, as shown in the presentinstance, an approximately concavo-convex form and is provided withusual thread-holes.

6 denotes an offset on the inner or convex side of the button to receivea part of the extension or hook-shank 3, connected to the periphery ofthe button by a bend 7. Said fold terminates in a bend 8, which bendconnects the fold with a pendent hook 9 to receive a tape or like devicefor makin g connection with drawers or other garments.

As represented in Figs. l and 2, the hook 9 hangs straight down from thebutton proper, and this form is designed for use when the button is tobe sewed or otherwise secured to the inside of trousers or the like.

To adapt the article for use onthe outside, it may beprovided withanother open bend 10, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4. This bend isdesigned to receive the upper edge of a waistband when the button is'attached eX- teriorly, in which case the hook 9 will depend within thetrousers, as in the first case.

The improved construction obviates the usual effect of the customaryconnection consisting of a tape attached to the drawers and passed overthe suspender-ends before they are connected with the buttons, whichconnection tends to roll the waistband inwardly and hold the button in ahorizontal situation, with its edge against the person of the wearer,resulting in great discomfort and interfering with the proper hang orset of the trousers.

The particular forni of hook shown is not essential, neither is theopening 5 therein, though the latter diminishes the weight of a hookhaving a relatively wide bearing for tape. It also provides for theconvenient passage of the needle in sewing on the form illustrated inFigs. 3 and 4L.

The device would be operative were no oifset provided to: receive theextension-fold; but the construction described is preferred, because itavoids interference with the suspender-loop.

It is not essential that the inner garment be connected to the pendenthook by means of a tape, and any suitable connection may be employed,and obviously the pendent button extension might be made to connect withan` inner garment by engaging any suitable attachment thereon. Forexample, a hook or button on said garment could be made to engage theopening in the extension, which in such case need not be bent into ahook, and, further, it may be noted that it is not essential that thebutton and its extension be integral, though that form is preferred.

In Fig. 9 is shown a form wherein a button is provided with two hooks,which in ordinary use will be laterally situated with respect to thebutton and act to keep a loop of tape extended and effect other obvioususe ful purposes. y

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I am aware that it has been proposed to solder or otherwise iix a wireattachment for sustaining drawers to pantaloon-buttons, and Such deviceis not of my invention. It is characteristic of my improvement that ablank is provided of suitable form for producing a pantaloons-button anda drawerssupporter integrally without obstructing use of the button andthat the article can be completed by simply bending such blank, and,further, that the blank is adapted to produce a complete article,whether the button be attached to the exterior or to the interior of thepantaloons.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, ism

l. A button provided with means for attachment to a garment, said buttonhaving a pendent hook to receive a garment-supporting tape, said hookhaving a part of its shank bent against the button and the button havinga recess to receive said part to obviate obstruction to the use of thebutton.

2. A button provided with means for attaching it to a garment and alsowith a hook fixed to its periphery, said hook having its shankcontiguous to the button and adapted to support a garment by suspensionwithout interference with the oiice of the button.

3. A button consisting of a sheetmetal disk provided with means forattaching it to a garment and also with a hook fixed to its periphery,said hook having its shank contiguous to the button and adapted tosupport a garment by suspension without interference with the office ofthe button. l

4. For producing an integral sheet-metal pantaloons-button anddrawers-supporter by stamping and bending, the sheet-metal button-blankhaving an extension from its periphery to form a hook-shank and hook,said extension having at its free end an enlargenient 4 cutaway at 5whereby it may receive ahook 11, and whereby when ahook is formed bybending the enlarged part of the extension a twofold bearing for a tapeis provided.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

HENRY F. STOWELL.

fitnessest FAYETTE G. HICKS, JOHN 1I. DAILEY.

